eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Educators stress the importance of state leadership, transparency for purchasing digital instructional materials. A new report urges care when purchasing digital instructional materials, and notes that factors such as interoperability, accessibility, and device access should be considered during the process.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

The San Francisco-based nonprofit’s most recent report, 2016 State of the States , is one part of that process. million more students than in last year’s report, and a staggering 30.9 E-Rate , an FCC program that provides funding to help schools and libraries build fiber infrastructure and expand their wi-fi and broadband networks.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

But now I can report that these tools have been adopted in thousands of U.S. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. By contrast, digital materials have no resale value.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2015

school and library to high-speed internet by helping states and school districts access billions of dollars in the newly modernized federal E-rate program. The reforms resulted in $9 billion being available for high-speed fiber and wi-fi projects at schools and libraries across the country over the next five years.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. When we started all of this, it wasn’t because we wanted to get broadband in every classroom,” Marwell said.

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ExcelinEd

APRIL 5, 2019

Visit EducationSuperHighway.org to learn how your state can upgrade internet access in every public school classroom to empower more students to take advantage of the promise of digital learning. ” USED Office of Educational Technology , Building Technology Infrastructure for Learning. . What Others Are Saying.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

This year alone, Funds for Learning reported that schools have released Category 2 Form 470s at a record pace — and earlier this fall, requests were up 56% over last year. From our work, we have learned how the complex filing process is even more strenuous for small schools due to limited staff and resourcing.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

We're just over a week away from our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th! Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 network to be able to connect with and correspond with 22,000 other individuals in the library world, and to be kept updated on this and future events.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

While 96 percent of Americans in urban areas have access to fixed broadband, only 70 percent of New Mexicans have broadband access at home. Unfortunately, the digital divide is a very real barrier to success in our community,” said Audra Bluehouse, an English teacher at Hatch Valley High. “We

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 18, 2019

While access to technology may be nearly universal today, using those same technologies for learning isn't always equitable. A number of key findings in Common Sense's recently released research report, The Common Sense Census: Inside the 21st-Century Classroom , speak to this disconnect.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Almost no district was truly ready to plunge into remote learning full time and with no end in sight. There is no one-size-fits-all remedy and no must-have suite of digital learning tools. Many broadband providers are also adding capacity, lifting caps on data and offering extended free trial periods. on April 10, 2020.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

These commitments are connecting 20 million more students to next-generation broadband and wireless. Overall, 49 percent of students in Verizon Innovative Learning schools reported feeling more confident about what they can accomplish as a result of this initiative, and 44 percent of students were more engaged at school.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 18, 2019

While access to technology may be nearly universal today, using those same technologies for learning isn't always equitable. A number of key findings in Common Sense's recently released research report, The Common Sense Census: Inside the 21st-Century Classroom , speak to this disconnect.

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Classroom Policies Broadband Accessibility 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

This computing device return-and-repair ritual looks different from the end-of-year textbook and library book return that was a staple of decades past. The COVID-19 pandemic and the implementation of emergency remote learning dramatically accelerated the push toward 1:1 computing initiatives that was already underway.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

After seven years of coordinated efforts to improve internet access in schools, thereby laying the foundation for digital learning to take root and expand in U.S. In 2017, EducationSuperHighway’s annual “State of the States” report declared 94 percent of U.S. So seven years ago, knowing little about school broadband, he dove in.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

states experiencing teacher shortages and nearly half of teachers reporting burnout, this technology can help teachers give students more personalized time and attention while lightening their workload. Other technology like Kinderpedia streamlines teacher work and strengthens the three-way connection between teachers, students and parents.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Education leaders expect school internet needs to increase over the next several years, highlighting the need for increased bandwidth and resources to support growing digital learning demands on school networks. Related content: 5 school and library applicants weigh in on E-rate.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

A lot of our kids don’t have internet access,” said Coe, who knows students who routinely head to the library or the town’s McDonald’s to get online. The Federal Communications Commission estimates that about 21 million Americans lack broadband access, with an independent research group indicating the actual number is twice as high.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 31, 2020

With the possibility of remote learning returning this fall, the City of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the philanthropic community, and leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs) recognized a historic opportunity to eliminate broadband accessibility as a barrier to digital learning. On June 25, 2020, Mayor Lori E.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Kajeet introduced Kajeet Private Wireless, its next-gen, cloud-based, private 5G and LTE platform delivering fast, secure, and reliable broadband connectivity for students in remote areas and communities underserved by public wireless options.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

schools accessing high-speed broadband, and devices all but ubiquitous in the classroom, the question is no longer whether teachers and students are using technology, but how. Teachers themselves report a lack of confidence using technology tools in the classroom. With 99 percent of U.S. On its face, that sounds like a good thing.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

So a new concept has emerged: “digital equity.” According to the Federal Communications Commission, evidence is showing a strong relationship between broadband access, internet adoption and health outcomes. The FCC goes on to note that “fostering digital equity and health equity are inextricably intertwined.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Under the Obama administration, this office spearheaded efforts around increasing broadband access for schools and libraries, expanding the use of open educational resources through the #GoOpen campaign, and improving teacher preparation programs. Within ED, one of the busiest teams has been the Office of Educational Technology (OET).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage. It is all about the balance. This emphasizes the need for tools and programs to support their well-being.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Challenges to accreditation and certification and the steady drumbeat of “everyone should learn to code” are connected to politics as well as to the business of ed-tech. This reporting treats “ed-tech” as a product built in and by Silicon Valley, not as something built in and by public institutions around the world.

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